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THIS IS ALL only gave way for the moment. Ten or a dozen years at the least; with absolute moderation, quiet living, self-restraint, and so on, who knows that it might not be a score of years?'

The doctor looked at him curiously and said nothing.

'There, you see—I'm all right. I've faced the situation. And now tell me exactly what's the matter with me.'

'Heart,' said the doctor laconically.

'I know that,' Wyatt said irritably. 'I want to know the name of the disease, and if there's any complication.'

'Well, I shan't tell you. You'd try to look yourself up in your old edition of Roberts's "Theory and Practice of Medicine," and you'd find something more or less like yourself, and it wouldn't do you any good.'

'Some doctors would have told me.' 31